The Sentinel from Carlisle, Pennsylvania • 15

Thursday, August 26, 2004 www.cumberllnk.com Local News The Sentinel Page B3 Carlisle Fairgrounds "One Book, One Community' 'Vettes up for bid, in parade Overnight assignmen leads to 'Rocket FYI Boys The author has moved on to dinosaurs. Carlisle Fairgrounds is located at 1000 Bryn Mawr Road in North Middleton Township. Gates are open from 7 a.m. until dusk daily. Adult admission is $12 each day; children age 12 and under are admitted free.

For more information, visit Carlisle Events' website at www.carsatcarlisle.com corvette or call 243-7855. By Linda Franz Sentinel Reporter Kranzcumberlink.com The sound of 2,500 Corvettes all revving, followed by silence on the entire 82-acre fairground, will be an amazing tribute," organizers say. At 5:30 pjn. Saturday, fre Chip Miller Memorial Garden, located outside of Gate 1 on Clay Street, is scheduled to be unveiled and dedicated. On Friday and Saturday at noon, the show is scheduled to feature the Mecum Corvettes at Carlisle auction, another chance for visitors to acquire the cars.

Parading in town On Saturday starting at 6:45 p.m., hundreds of Corvettes will spill into Carlisle for the annual parade, featuring food, vendors and live music. The cars will be displayed on Hanover Street from 730 to 10 p.m., with mask provided by the Neil Wright Band from 7 to 10 p.m. The evei is co-sponsored by the Downtown Carlisle Association. On Sunday at the fairgrounds, visitors will have a chance to win a 1990 red metallic Corvette coupe donated by "Corvette Mike." The Women's Oasis, an area dedicated to activities for women, will feature seminars, demonstrations, free massages and manicures and a fashion show Saturday. For kids, the Corvette show will host cartoon guests, a play center and activities such as a model-building contest, face painting and a kids' car show with gad, pedal and battery-operated Corvettes.

By Ella McComas Sentinel Reporter emccomascumberlink.com Corvettes and those who love them will flood Carlisle Fairgrounds this weekend for the 23rd annual Corvettes at Carlisle. From Friday to Sunday, the fairgrounds will be a sea of activity packed with several Corvette reunions, including the "Race Car Reunion," featuring Corvettes still equipped for racing, the 1954 reunion and the Greenwood reunion, which includes cars built by John, Tim and Joe Greenwood. Mike Guyette and Wayne Ell-wood helped to compile a selection of Corvettes for the "Chip's Choice Display" in building T. This features unique Greenwood Corvettes, organizers say. Bid on 'Vettes Visitors also will have the opportunity to bid on Corvettes during the show's auctions.

Beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, people can take part in the Chip Miller Benefit Auction at the Mecum Auction tent. At 11:45 a.m., a 1957 Corvette owned by Chip Miller is scheduled to go on the auction block. Miller, co-founder of Carlisle Events, died in March after battling amyloidosis, a rare plasma-cell disorder. He donated the car before he passed away.

All proceeds from the auction will be used for amyloidosis research, organizers say. Miller's son, Lance, has stepped in to help run the show. "I'll be continuing with my father's legacy by joining the Carlisle team and making sure that Corvettes at Carlisle remains the best of its kind," Lance Miller says. "Corvettes at Carlisle had a personal feel to it because my father put his heart and soul into something he loved so deeply. I've always loved Corvettes and they're a large part of my life." Bill Miller, co-owner of Carlisle Events, says he is pleased to have Lance Miller join die team.

"We're certainly happy to have the next generation being involved in the business," he says. "Lance has been around the car shows all his life and certainly will be a great asset to continue the growth of the Corvette show." Saturday at noon, all Corvette owners at the show are invited to start the cars and rev the engines before observing a moment of silence in honor of Chip Miller. Submitted photo Homer Hickam Jr. says he loved to read as a boy. Author Homer Hickam Jr.

is no stranger to the "One Book" program, designed to get people to read and talk about a selected book. His "Rocket Boys," first printed in 1998, has become the choice of more than 20 "One Book" events. "It appeals to just about any member of the family," Hickam says. He began his career as a writer and an author while he pursued a nearly 30-year career first with the Army Missile Command and then with NASA. After returning in 1969 from a tour of duty in Vietnam, he began to write for magazines, mostly about his scuba diving adventures.

Hickam's first book was published in 1989. 'Torpedo Junction," a military history bestseller, tells about the battle against U-boats along America's East Coast during World War II. Editor 'underwhelmed' "Rocket Boys" evolved out of a story Hickam wrote for Air and Space magazine in 1994. "They needed 2,000 words overnight," he recalls. He told his editor he could write about growing up in Coalwood, W.Va., and the rockets he and his friends built.

"The editor was completely underwhelmed with the idea," he says. Then she read his story. "She called back the next day and said, 'Homer, you're on to something here. Half the office is laughing, half is Once the article was published, Hollywood producers contacted Hickam. "I felt like this story had the possibility of being something," he says, so he followed up with the book.

While it tells the story of a group of teens and the increasingly sophisticated rockets they built and launched, it also deals with life in Coalwood. Wouldn't have stayed Hickam thinks he would have left Coalwood even if he hadn't become interested in rockets. "If I had not found anything of a major adventurous type of activity like building rockets, I would have probably been an English professor," he says. "Reading and writing was what I loved." After college, Hickam spent six years as an officer with the Army's 4th Infantry Division. "It was part of my quest to lead an adventurous life," he says.

"I think all that came from reading. I read everything I could get my hands on." Once he retired from NASA in 1998, he left that life behind for new pursuits. "Space and rockets I'm not really interested FYI Development 3 "Rocket Boys," a memoir by Homer Hickam, is the selection for this year's "One Book, One Community" regional reading campaign. Residents in Adams, Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties are encouraged to read the book in September and October and take part in area events and book discussions sponsored by public libraries this fall. "Rocket Boys" can be borrowed at any participating library and will be available for purchase at area supermarkets and Continued from B1 Traffic study urged During the comment period of Wednesday's hearing, Norman Suss, a representative for another developer, recommended the township require to perform a traffic impact study of the intersections of Woods Drive with Hogestown and Silver Spring roads.

Suss represents the developer of the Rivendell subdivision, a proposed 134-lot development, on the northwest corner of ting, Melham said. Research shows age-restricted communities tend to generate one-half to one-quarter of the traffic volume of other subdivisions, Melham said, because these residents tend not to drive during peak hours. He suggested money from a traffic study be invested instead in improvements to Woods Drive. Dawood has recommended Silver Spring consider waiving future traffic impact studies along Woods Drive when appropriate and instead have 'put that money, toward road the township land development ordinance requires developers to furnish two entrances into each subdivision to ensure access during an emergency. She said since has proposed dividing its subdivision into age-restricted and nonage-restricted segments, there should be two entrances for each segment But the lawyer for argued that is an issue for the land development plan approval phase, not for the conditional rus request, i LeBlanc also asked whether the trail network proposed for the tract could be linked somehow with trails proposed for the other developments along Woods Drive.

Melham said this was probably not possible because the cluster is intended to be a gated secure community with private streets and common open space maintained by either a homeowners' or condominium in that anymore," he says. Hickam now spends summers on dinosaur digs in Montana. And he's working on a novel and screenplay about dinosaur hunters. But first, he had to learn a lot about paleontol- lVVV Of. I "This thing with dinosaurs, it's like a big Easter egg hunt for me," he says.

"We discovered what may be a new species of rex in June. Right now, it's being called Rex, named after me." 'improvements. -imvfc The Hogestown Road and Silver Spring Road intersections with Woods Drive have already been studied during the review process for the Sterling Glen, Rivendell and Tyson Commons developments, Dawood says. Supervisors did not act on Suss's request 2 entrances needed Supervisor Jan LeBlanc said Woods Drive and Silver Spring Road. But Melham said his client has not received a request from the township to conduct a traffic study and he doesn't think one is needed given the low peak traffic volumes anticipated under the plan.

The plan calls for 145 of the 190 units to be age-restricted like the retirement community at Bent Creek, with the remaining 45 units open to professionals who value a private, secure set Trespass suspect faces trial By Crystal Owens Sentinel Reporter cowenscumberlink.com Sewer Tanes EZZZZ3 When Trooper Kirk Perkins arrived, he found a Chevrolet Blazer with a broken windshield and heard someone yelling in a cornfield across from Becker's home. "I heard a voice from the cornfield say he needed help and did not want to die," Perkins said in an affidavit He told Lynch to come out of the cornfield, but Lynch only fell when attempting to get up. Perkins found Lynch lying in the field, covered in blood. He allegedly told the trooper he and a friend had taken some hallucinogenic mushrooms. He and the friend, Jeremia McLaughlin, 18, of Carlisle, had gotten into the Blazer after allegedly taking the mushrooms and drove until they ran out of gas near Becker's home, police say.

Lynch allegedly began punching his friend, so McLaughlin fled into the cornfield. Lynch punched the windshield until there was a hole large enough for him to crawl through, arrest documents say, and then he crawled out and took off all his clothes. He allegedly smashed through the double-paned glass door to Becker's home at about 3:35 a.m., police say. Lynch was treated for severe cuts and charged with burglary, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct and indecent exposure. McLaughlin was charged with driving under the influence.

Lynch is free on $2,500 bail awaiting an Oct. 12 formal arraignment A Mechanicsburg man found naked and bloody in the living room of a South Middleton Township residence last week after he allegedly took some hallucinogenic mushrooms is headed to trial. Franklin Lynch, 20, of the 300 block of Stumpstown Road, waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday before District Justice Susan Day. He is being represented by Carlisle attorney Kara W. Hagger-ty.

Lynch was arrested Aug. IS after Robert Becker woke to find Lynch in his Shugart Road residence and called police. Continued from B1 There is still "a little over $30,000" left to be allocated to residents, Mrkobrad said. Some residents say they simply cannot afford to hook up to the sewer. With the tapping fee and an estimated $1,600 for the lateral line, Marlys Edwards told officials, "We don't have the money." She hoped the township would be able to offer some sort of payment plan "but that doesn't seem to be an option," sh'- said.

Edwards planned to alk to Mrkobrad about applying for grant money. Melinda Edwards says she hasn't hooked up yet because "number one, like most people, money." She too attended the meeting to learn about financing. Township officials urge Plain-field residents who have not yet hooked up to the sewer to visit the township office at 2150 Newville Road to begin the process and avoid late fees. Continued from B1 Greenwood School District includes Millerstown and Liverpool boroughs and Greenwood, Tuscarora and Liverpool townships in Perry County and Greenwood Township in Juniata County. Newport School District is comprised of Newport Borough and Howe, Juniata, Miller and Oliver townships, plus part of Buffalo Township.

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